Table of Contents

Carol Bakhos and Michael Cook: Introduction
1: Reflections on the State of the Art in Western Quraanic Studies
2: Nicolai Sinai: Processes of Literary Growth and Editorial Expansion in Two Medinan Surahs
3: Joseph Witztum: O Believers, Be not as Those who Hurt Moses : Q 33:69 and its Exegesis
4: Patricia Crone: Pagan Arabs as God-fearers
5: Angelika Neuwirth: Locating the Qur'an and Early Islam in the Epistemic Space of Late Antiquity
6: Were there Prophets in the Jahiliyya?
7: Michael Cook: Early Medieval Christian and Muslim Attitudes to Pagan Law: a Comparison
8: Iwona Gajda: Remarks on Monotheism in Ancient South Arabia

About the Author

Carol Bakhos is Professor of Late Antique Judaism and Jewish Studies at UCLA. Since 2012 she has served as Chair of the Study of Religion program and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA. Her publications include The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Interpretations (Harvard University Press, 2014) and The Talmud in Its Iranian Context (Mohr Siebeck, 2010). Michael A. Cook is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at
Princeton University. His publications include The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2000) and Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (PUP, 2014).

Reviews

contributions to the volume are of very high quality and are quite useful in introducing readers into some of the more pressing issues facing students in Qur'anic studies and the early history of Islam.
*Alfons H. Teipen, Religious Studies Review*

Overall, the book is thought-provoking and sheds light on different aspects of current Quranic research.
*Valentina A. Grasso, Garth Fowden, University of Cambridge, Journal of the American Oriental Society*